Word: eileen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eileen, 10, drank because she was dull in school. "She was in the same class for the third successive term. She stopped on her way to class at her aunt's home . . . every morning and surreptitiously took drinks [of liquor] in increasing number till she was found to be sleeping through class. Finally, she never reached school, falling in a coma on a street corner...
...played Honolulu and traveled by "banana truck" to the remotest outposts on the island of Oahu. It will soon tour the outlying islands. Meanwhile Evans (who has done no acting) has in rehearsal such Broadway hits as Boy Meets Girl and My Sister Eileen; eventually he may dish up a little Shakespeare. He thinks blank-verse tragedy will be such a novelty for soldiers that they will like it. To back up his hunch, he points to three wow performances of Mac beth at Fort George G. Meade, last year...
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto (Halle Orchestra, Leslie Heward conducting, with Eileen Joyce; Columbia; 6 sides). One of Shostakovich's early (first performed in 1933) and most sparkling scores. Brilliantly performed and well recorded...
Here is one you may have missed. Rosiland Russell and Janet Blair (My Sister Eileen) in a daffy sort of comedy about two wet-behind-the-ears midwestern girls who hit the Big Town--and in turn...
Taken from the stage play of the same name, "My Sister Eileen" is a good impression of a hick's impression of New York. There are several other characters scattered throughout the picture: a dashing young executive, a dull young executive, a troup of Latin-American Naval Cadets, and an arty janitor, each in his place and doing wonders with a good story...